Oak Ridge Micro-Energy Reports on Development of a Low-Voltage Thin-Film Battery

Oak Ridge Micro-Energy (OKME) announced success in the initial development of a new low-voltage prototype battery. Several inquiries from the micro-device industry prompted OKME to launch a project late in the Fourth Quarter of 2006 to develop a low-voltage rechargeable thin film battery. Earlier this month, OKME reported test results of a prototype battery that delivers 74% of its capacity between 2 and 1V.

"In addition to the demand for the company’s presently manufactured batteries that operate between 4V and 3V, we have identified a growing segment of the microelectronics industry requiring thin film batteries that operate below 3V," stated OKME’s President and CEO Mark Meriwether. "We are very pleased that such encouraging results were obtained early in the project and believe that a significant improvement in the capacity delivered between 2V and 1V can be achieved in the near future."